THE KING DAVID WRECK.
SUFFERINGS OF THE SURVIVORS."
SAILMAKER GOES INSANE,
Received February 27, 12.15 a.m. SYDNEY, February 16.
The Vancouver mail brings details of the wreck of tht« King David. The captain and the bulk of the crew were oast on a desolate reef on the west ooast of Vancouver for four weeks before they wore rescued. Tho sailmaker went insane and died on tho day of the resoue. The wreck was caused by the captain mistaking the newly-established light at Clayoquot for Capo Boale. The first mute, Wallstein, of New Zealand, with six seamen, loft the scene of the wreck eight days afterwards to obtain assistance, and they are supposed to have perished in a storm which, subsequently, brought about tho loss of the ship Pass of Melfort with all hands, in the same region.
CABLE NEWS.
By Teleeraph—Prew'Association.—CoivtWT"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7974, 27 February 1906, Page 5
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